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Life science companies are experiencing a significant transformation in how they bring new products to market.
Organizations must adapt to changes in the marketplace, such as global product commercialization, specialized medicine, new regulations, new payment models, and new technology that are driving more product variety, smaller drug volumes, and shorter product life cycles.
To meet the needs of this new commercial model, life science companies must re-envision the global supply chain and evolve the tools they use to run their business. The supply chain that was designed for launching blockbuster products will not work in the future.
Today, the global supply chain relies on a manual, paper-based process centered on printing documents and sending them via overnight mail, fax, or e-mail with scanned attachments. This time-consuming and costly process is errorprone, tedious for customers and team members, and vulnerable to security and compliance risks.

"The healthcare industry struggles along the entire paper trail from start to finish. The current process is slow, costly, inefficient, full of errors, vulnerable to security breaches and hurts the people they are chartered to care for.
Download this complimentary whitepaper and discover how DocuSign’s eSignature solutions modernize healthcare and life sciences organizations by eliminating paper and antiquated signature processes while meeting compliance requirements and reducing costs and errors.
You will learn how DocuSign helps the healthcare industry to:
• Reduce turnaround times for diagnostic result documents by weeks
• Cut excessive administrative expenses and eliminate manual rekeying errors
• Increase efficiency by eliminating time spent sending paper forms with doctors’ signatures"

Procurement’s Pesky Paper Problem
We know time is precious, so we’ll get right to the point: Paper-based processes are tarnishing your procurement department’s reputation for driving cost savings, improving service, and expediting execution. First, there’s the printing, scanning, faxing, and mailing of documents. Then comes the constant tracking down of physical signatures for everything from statements of work to supplier contracts. Add in the manual filing, searching, and retrieving of hard copies, and it’s no wonder that inefficiency abounds.

"Many financial services firms have automated the vast majority of key processes and customer experiences. However, the “last mile” of most transactions – completing the agreement– far too often relies on the same inefficient pen-and-paper processes of yesteryear.
Digitising agreements using DocuSign lets you keep processes digital from end to end. Completing transactions no longer requires documents to be printed and shipped, and re-keyed on the back end.
Read the whitepaper to learn how leading financial services organisations use straight-through processing by automating the last mile of business transactions to:
- Speed processes by 80% or more, often going from days or weeks to just minutes
- Reduce NIGO by anywhere from 55% to 93%
- Achieve a 300% average ROI "

"Microsoft has teamed up with DocuSign to make our industry-leading eSignature apps available to businesses and consumers within Microsoft applications, making it easier than ever to stay productive.
Robust apps for Outlook, Word, SharePoint, Dynamics CRM, Windows and Windows Phone are making it easier for organisations of every size, industry, and geography to quickly and securely transact business anytime, anywhere, on any device.
Read this white paper to learn how you can use DocuSign for Office 365 to:
- Go digital: Send and manage your documents work flow more efficiently
- Save time: Eliminate paper-based processes like printing, scanning, and faxing
- Increase productivity: With DocuSign for Office 365, transactions are done quickly and securely"

Document signing certificates enable organizations to digitally sign Adobe®, Microsoft Office® and other document types, marking them with visual trust indicators that verify the publisher’s identity—an indication that the document has not been altered.
With document signing certificates organizations can authenticate documents, allowing for secure and efficient electronic transmission of official papers including legal documents, invoices, engineering plans and diagrams, diplomas, charters and more while reducing costs associated with printing and maintaining paper files.
This white paper will discuss:
The history of document signing
What digital signatures are and how they function
The benefits and objectives of implementing document signing certificates
Real world use cases of document signing certificates

Despite the digitization of business today, most organizations continue to rely on
paper hard copies to get the job done. A great deal of printed information drives
the fundamental workflow and success of nearly any business, especially in highimpact,
high-touch areas like Marketing and Sales; Planning, Engineering and
Design; and Human Resources. As a result, companies continue to look for ways to
manage the ongoing cost, workflow and efficiency of using printed documents.

Since the earliest days of the industry, insurance companies have faced a
never-ending struggle: processing the voluminous amount of paperwork that
underwriting, claims, and compliance require. But the days of enduring the
burdens caused by mountains of paper can become a distant memory. By
investing in new, proven methods of converting paper documents to readable
digital formats, insurance organizations can fully automate document processing
to accelerate workflows, minimize processing times and enable more efficient
operations.

Given the wide range of technology options available, it's important for healthcare IT executives to pick the right image management technology and approach for a long-term sustainable solution delivering the desired performance and ROI. This whitepaper explores solutions for multi-layered neutrality, a standards-based framework for unifying medical images and clinical documents across the enterprise and community.

Given the wide range of technology options available, it's important for healthcare IT executives to pick the right image management technology and approach for a long-term sustainable solution delivering the desired performance and ROI. This whitepaper explores solutions for multi-layered neutrality, a standards-based framework for unifying medical images and clinical documents across the enterprise and community.

This whitepaper describes the formal and informal file-sharing methods business employees use to perform their daily functions and explains that, from sending small text documents to multi-gigabyte video files, the right managed file transfer (MFT) solution can allow such transfers to continue without risking the security of the corporate network. The paper explains that the right MFT solution can enable business growth, enhance operational efficiency, enable compliance, reduce costs, and increase ROI. Choosing the right MFT solution requires eight considerations described in the paper, and concludes by explaining why Globalscape solutions are the choice of our customers around the world.

This white paper is structured so that each page is its own "mini-white-paper" but each is also part of a total look at better structuring requirements documents, processes and content completeness. At the end of this paper is a one page "tear-out" summary which is both a shortened distillation of the content, and a diagnostic tool to start a peer discussion on your organization's performance.

Requirements quality is tangible. It is possible to look at the specific characteristics of requirements documentation and determine if it is sufficiently clear, accurate and complete to lead to a successful project. Since flawed requirements trigger about 70% of all project failures,1 this paper will present some hard and fast rules for looking at requirements documents, in any format, and being able to determine if they are reasonably well constructed. It will outline the key points to look for in a requirements document, and why this can save a company hundreds of thousands of dollars. Finally, it will offer five straightforward questions to address when evaluating requirements quality. The paper is not intended to be a full audit of requirements, but rather act as a guide and checklist for evaluation.

You've got a scanner, and you have a lot of paper to manage. Now what? Scanning documents one by one may fall short of modern approaches in terms of efficiency and time. There are plenty of solutions, but which one is right for you?

The financial services industry has always been on the front lines of raging battle to understand, manage and process paper documents. Overwhelmed by paper documents, and more, learn how organizations can make improvement to paper-flow and more.

This white paper, based on original IBM research with analysis by IDC, offers a Mobile Infrastructure Maturity Model and documents the best practices and characteristics of organizations that are leaders.

This paper covers why encryption is not enough to protect your electronic documents and why other factors such as the implementation of a DRM (digital rights management) system are equally important for document protection. It covers key management, enforcing time limitations, and other methods of document control.

An integrated production faxing solution offers a number of benefits to the enterprise. This paper highlights the financial and workflow improvements you can expect by automating the document delivery process in your organization. See why companies that have made considerable investment in back-office automation systems take this next logical step to automate delivery of high volume, transactional paper documents.

While perhaps not the most exciting way to exchange information, faxing is one of the most widely used, secure and compliant ways. This paper explains a solution that allows your organization to take full advantage of all of the benefits of faxing, while eliminating the associated costs such as lost productivity, overhead and lost business.

Maintaining regulatory compliance is a major business issue facing organizations around the world. The need to secure, track and store information for compliance purposes is critical. For years businesses have relied on fax communications in day-to-day operations. More pressure is now placed on the need to closely manage fax communications and document processes. It’s not surprising that organizations are turning to enterprise fax technology to meet compliance requirements. This white paper addresses the area of fax communications and the steps you can take to help keep your organization compliant.

A lot of talk is in the marketplace about enterprise software deployment models: on-premises, cloud, hybrid, managed/hosted. The conversation is an important one for every enterprise as it considers enterprise applications. This document is designed to help you evaluate the available deployment options for enterprise fax solutions. It includes easy-to-follow tables that will allow you to build selection criteria based on your organization’s requirements and needs.